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Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.

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Message #33 received at 66267-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66267-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:05 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 15:02:57 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:42:13 +0000
> > Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 66267 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

[ .... ]

> > > ??? You say "abbreviating it with ellipses".  "It" is singular, so it
> > > gets abbreviated with only one ellipsis, not with several ones.

> > Not necessarily.  Something like a cons structure or vector printed by
> > cl-prin1 can have several, or even many ellipses in it.  Last week I got
> > a line from an ERT backtrace containing 42 ellipses - which incidentally
> > made it nearly useless for debugging.

> Then something like this is in order, I think:

>   Use this function with @code{cl-prin1} to print an object, possibly
>   abbreviating it with one or more ellipses to fit within the size
>   limit.

I've put that text into cl.texi, thanks.  I've tidied up a few
trivialities, inserted that cross-reference we talked about, and
committed the change to master.

I'm closing the bug with this post.

> > By the way, I forgot one detail about the patch.  I've written it on the
> > assumption that bug #66392 "Add raw printing for byte compiled functions
> > to cl-prin1, etc." gets OK'd.  Stefan M. has already explicitly expressed
> > no objection to it.  If that bug isn't OK, it's a simple matter to amend
> > the cl.texi patch.  Would you take a quick peep at it, please?  Thanks!

> I have no objections to it.

Thanks.  I've committed that change and closed that bug, too.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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